I don't have a racist bone in my body.
— Curt Schilling
If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.
The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library whenever I want to find out something about something and not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.
I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.
I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.
My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.
I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.
I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
I was always an MMO fan. I'm playing 'World of Warcraft' in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.
Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.
One thing I was told early in my career is when you walk out on the field, the name on the back of your jersey is not yours - it's your dad's. I've carried that with me forever as something - I've worked harder and learned more about my father since he passed than when he was alive, because when he was alive, I was young, and I knew everything.
I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'
Just hear Senator McCain speak. He may not give you the answer you are looking for, he may not be in agreement with you on a stance or an issue, but the man is honest to a fault.
I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.
I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.
People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
I loved fantasy role play.
I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world.
I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.
Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have.
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.
I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
I've got thick skin.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
